11. The Doms were formerly classified as a criminal tribe under the Criminal Tribes Acts of the British Raj. 12. Further, they enacted Criminal Tribes Act to prevent the established warriors from training and breeding these horses. 13. In 1934 he joined the movement organized by Muthuramalinga Thevar to oppose the Criminal Tribes Act ( CTA ). 14. One such measure was the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871, under the provisions of which the Meenas were placed. 15. The Meenas remained an officially-designated criminal tribe until 1952, three years after the Act had been repealed. 16. The criminal branding of the tribe goes back to 1871 after the British passed the " Criminal Tribes Act ". 17. During 18th Century, the British colonial authorities brought the community under the purview of Criminal Tribes Act of 1871. 18. This is because the Criminal Tribes Act was posed widely as a social reform measure which reformed criminals through work. 19. Gujjars took a large part for the independence of the country, and thus Britishers gave them name criminal tribe . 20. After their denotification as a criminal tribe , they were settled by the government in colonies, and given agricultural land.
